STIJL, DE (Du., "the style"), Dutch
movement in the arts, started in Amsterdam in 1917 and dedicated to abstraction
based on a quest for harmony and order. Among the founders of the move 24424d311y ment were
the painters Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, who also established its
journal, De Stijl (1917-32). Their
canvases were abstract compositions in pure primary colors combined with
straight lines in black, gray, and white. De Stijl principles also influenced
the decorative arts, and architecture in particular-as
in the austere clarity of the Schröder House (1924) in Utrecht
by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, and the Workers' Housing Estate (1924-27) in Hook of Holland by Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud.
